Central Florida's Premier Yoga Studio fi tbody yogamatrixstudio
Edely L.Wallace BA, CYT, E-RYT Owner/Director
26 Years of Teaching Experience Former Executive Board Member Yoga Alliance
LYMPHATIC YOGA WITH ERICKA!
Thursdays 9:30-10:45am
Yoga Teacher Training WEEKLONG #2 April 15-19, 2013
• Jnana-Yoga • Bhagavad Gita • Mudras, Bandhas, Kriyas • Yoga of the Inner Sound • Kundalini Energy
Shine your light by way of teaching!
YOGA & AYURVEDA Weekend Training
May 3-5, 2013 407-354-0909 407-354-0909
7601 Della Drive, Suite 5 Orlando, FL 32819
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Picture Perfect From athletes to astronauts,
mental imagery boosts performance. by Debra Melani
L
ast winter, Terry Chiplin went for an early morning run near his Colorado home. Snow crunched as his sneakered feet hit the front porch of his mountain lodge, tucked into a secluded forest. Evergreen boughs glistened in the sun, drooping slightly from the weight of the sparkling white powder. The running coach smiled as he lifted his face to the sky, welcoming the large, wet fl akes that kissed his face. “Can you picture it?” asks the bubbly British native and owner of Active at Altitude, in Estes Park. That is “visualization,” he explains, a concept he uses regularly at retreats he conducts for runners from beginner to elite as a holistic means of boosting performance. “It’s simply a succession of mental images; we use visualization all the time.” Whether it’s Tiger Woods envisioning a perfect golf swing minutes before taking a shot or Michael Phelps replaying a mental video of an ideal swim the night before an Olympic event, many athletes have long worked with trainers such as Chiplin to move beyond strictly physical preparation and consciously enlist creative mental capacities to enhance their performance. Using imagery and
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positive self-talk can improve the efforts of any type of athlete and, as Chiplin’s clients have found, improve their lives. “The notion that we are just a physical
body, so we just need to train physically, is old-fashioned,” Chiplin maintains. Shortly after launching his program six years ago, he learned fi rsthand how powerful the mind could be in boosting (or sabotaging) performance. He remarks, “It quickly became apparent that the main issues people face are the mental things, what is happening in their heads.” Chiplin recalls watching runners fall from the peak capabilities they had reached after training hard for endurance events—as their mileage tapered off in the fi nal days before the race. Similarly, he thinks the sort of “negative visualization” he witnessed can have a similar impact on everyday life events such as exams, interviews and job achievement. Although unclear about its exact
mechanism, sports psychologists have long recognized the value of positive mental imagery, especially in building skills and reducing anxiety. In working with athletes, they apply shared models such as those reported in The Sport Psychologist.
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